Who Is Napoleon's Power In Animal Farm

This overthrow was a premeditated thought, as he had previously taken a litter of dogs away from their mothers, “kept them in a loft…and the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.'; Napoleon had previously calculated how to obtain ultimate power, and eliminates all of the thoughts or animals opposed to his regime.

This is proven multiple times where they use the animals for labor and are cutting down the amount of food they are provided with. An example of this is with the dogs that had been taken from their mothers, and that “it was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.” This shows that the animals look up to Napoleon the way that the dogs used to look up to their former master, Mr. Jones. Napoleon had used the dogs to get rid of Snowball, training them to do as he says and to follow him, as if he is superior, which breaks the last of the seven commandments, that all animals are

Napoleon used force to gain control of Animal Farm, and used fear to keep it. When he and Snowball both led the other animals, they had many disagreements. Napoleon saw that Snowball was better at communicating with the animals, so he used the dogs which he had secretly trained to drive Snowball away – permanently. Napoleon used these dogs to keep all the animals ‘in line’ and quash any thought of rebellion with fear.

Soon after building the windmill, it falls and Napoleon blames Snowball for its destruction. Some of the animals sympathize with Snowball, saying that there was no way he could have pushed it over. Napoleon becomes angry, purging the farm, killing anyone who he accuses of allying with Snowball. After he did so, animals questioned his tactics only for Napoleon to ask the animals, “Surely comrades, you would not want Jones back? (Orwell, pg. 67 Chap. 6)” By saying this rhetorical question, the animals would not question what it was that Jones had done that was worse than Napoleon, and they would just get back to doing their work. Napoleon used Squealer the pig to help him get out of situations that he brought upon himself. When Napoleon would say something that he was not supposed to, Squealer would justify for

While Napoleon was gaining power over the animals he had to get rid of other politicians and opposing citizens. He did this by raising dogs that would strike fear into citizens and end up chasing Snowball out of the farm making Napoleon have total power. “Four young porkers…uttered shrill squeals of disapproval…. But…the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again.”(document B). This made it so the animals were too scared to oppose or overthrow Napoleon. He also made it so no one could challenge him politically. He did this by having his dogs kill masses of people so no one would dare have different opinions and speak out against him. “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice, Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess”(document B). The mass murder made it so Napoleon had total control of the farm. The violence of Napoleon’s leadership caused the animals to fear to have their own opinions and forced them to conform to Napoleon’s

9. Napoleon is very interested in the education of the young. But of all the baby animals, why might he select the nine puppies to educate on his own?

Perhaps the most significant one of all was Napoleon throwing out the second most powerful animal on the farm, simply because he was a threat to his own reign. The animals were so engrossed by Napoleon that they fully supported the termination of Snowball, solely for the reasons given to them via Napoleon. “Napoleon produced his schemes of his own, but said quietly that snowball would come to nothing.” (54). At such an early point after the pigs power was established, Napoleon had already started to create a divide between Snowball and himself. When he told the other animals how horrible for the farm Snowball supposedly is, the farm would start to trust him more and therefore depend on his more.While gaining the animals trust more, he simultaneously gained more power for himself, for with Snowball gone all the power he had would now be his. “He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a maneuver to get rid of Snowball…Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference.”(58). Napoleon is willing to do anything to gain and maintain his own power, regardless of how it is done and who will be effected by it. As shown by this windmill incident, Napoleon will use any instance to further manipulate the other animals, just to gain even one more sliver of much desired

His main way of getting people to listen to him is by using his dogs to force people to do the required task or else they will get their heads bitten off along with the sheep saying ¨four legs good, two legs better¨ (Orwell, pg. 134) to help reinforce the idea that pigs are superior to the other animals. Another way Napoleon uses fear to gain the control over the animals at the farm is he threatens them with starvation. Both of these methods used by Napoleon were also used by Joseph Stalin to gain control over the masses. If society gives in to these methods then they are just giving more power and control to the higher power. Napoleon also threatens the animals with saying jones is going to come back and that is a reference back to when Stalin told his people that if they didn’t do what he wanted the old way of living was going to come back to them. With that much power and having all those people listen your commands can make you feel like you are unstoppable and greedy.

Just like Stalin, Napoleon had gotten rid of those who went against him in order to prevent any ideas that contradicted his to spread. By commanding the dogs to rip the throats out of those who confessed to betraying him, Napoleon was implanting fear into the minds of those who weren’t killed so that they didn’t try to betray him.

Napoleon interpreted snowball as a criminal and blamed for every bad thing that happens on the farm., it is stated in Document D “No better than a criminal” “Every night, it wa said, he came creeping in under cover of darkness and performed all kinds of mischief. He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs”. As Snowball was being blamed for every bad thing even when someone say he was brave in the battle of cowshed, squealer the pig tells everyone that bravery is not enough, loyalty and obedience are more important. Napoleon also uses porpangander to envision himself as a fearful and brave leader. In the battle of Cowshed, Napoleon is perceived as a leader and fearful as it is state in document E “Our leader, Comrade Napoleon” “ when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with cry of “Death to Humanity!” and sank his teeth in jones’s

After the revolution, Manor Farm was renamed to Animal Farm and the Seven Commandments of animalism were established to ensure equality. The pigs became the supervisors of the farm. However, the rivalry between two pigs Snowball and Napoleon made Napoleon use force. Napoleon ordered his dogs to chase out Snowball from the farm in order to become the only leader. Napoleon’s selfishness and corrupt power made him commit different atrocities against his own comrades. As a result, the lives of the animals except for the pigs and dogs were of tyranny and inequality. Napoleon became worse than their former human master. The animals spent the rest of his life almost starving and working in the construction of the windmill that was destroyed several times. The abolishment of Sunday morning meetings, the public execution of animals, and the drinking of alcohol were the most important changes that facilitated the transformation of animal farm, and Napoleon as the most responsible for the downfall of the utopian vision of Animal Farm.

He ordered the guard dogs to attack Snowball, and they “dashed straight for Snowball…one of them all but closed his jaws on Snowball’s tail, but Snowball whisked it free just in time. [He then] slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more…” The dogs then returned to Napoleon and it was noticeable “that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones” (Orwell, 33-34). Napoleon had his eye on the power that being leader can bring, and he overthrew Snowball in a corrupt, greedy manner.

But he trained them to be killers. First they drag the pigs by their ears and once Napoleon forced the pugs to confess about how they were secretly in touch with Snowball he ordered my pups to kill them. My pups ripped at the throats of the pigs. Then my pups tried to have a go at boxer, it was as though the taste of the pigs blood sent them mad.

Animal farm is about Mr. Jones farm being overthrown by the animals. The animals were tired of the way they were treated and thought it would be best if they ran the farm themselves. Once the animals gained control of the farm the pigs took charge and began reforming the farm, eventually Napoleon the pig rose up and took control of the pigs and the farm. Napoleon corrupted and twisted snowball and old major, two other pigs, ideas by using propaganda and turning snowball into the villain that everyone opposed to solely benefit his power hungry self. At first Napoleon did not seem like he needed to be the most powerful out of all the animals, he was happy just being in the most powerful group, the pigs, but once he got a taste of what it felt like to have everyone do exactly what he says, he decided to run the other competing pigs away to gain sole power.

To eliminate Snowball’s threat to his power, Napoleon steals a litter of puppies, trains them